Prison Act 1995 · Updated to 12 Dec 2025 · Part V · Employment and Prison Discipline
48. Scheme for prisoners to engage in employment
Feedback & supportFor the purpose of enabling prisoners, other than the prisoners referred to in section 49, to take up gainful employment whilst they are serving their sentences, the Minister may introduce a scheme and such prisoners may upon their own election participate in the scheme.
Minister
“Minister” means the Minister charged with the responsibility for prisons;
A prisoner taking up employment under a scheme referred to in subsection (1)—
prisoner
“prisoner” means a person, whether convicted or not, under confinement in a prison and in relation to a convicted prisoner, includes a prisoner released on parole;
may, despite an order made by a court for the committal of the prisoner, be taken daily beyond the limits of the prison to perform work; and
shall, at all times be deemed to be in prison and subject to all the same incidents as if he were actually in prison.